Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike: this picture won the World Press Photo 2013.
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Share Fair 2011 – day 2
Today inspiration came from the great intro by Rob Burnet who talked about the incredible experience of shujaaz in Kenya. This series, which is using comics, radio, internet mobile telephony and video, introduces agriculture to the Kenyan youth. Rob strongly suggested: “Go to the point. What does your audience is looking for?” and “It is not the what. It is how. Push does not work at the end.”
In the afternoon I joined @etiennewnger‘s and @NancyWhite‘s Community clinic to look for suggestions on how to solve problems of the CoPs that I supervise. In particular, I wanted to reflect on the FSCA community that it is still not very active after the workshop in Dakar. We came out with the answer I already knew: when the need is not clearly expressed by the members, then it is more difficult to have the group working as a Community. And this reminds me what I heard this morning during Rob’s address.
I closed the day meeting Ms Tukhikyan from Armenia who shared their experience in the attempt to mitigate plastic pollution. Recycling plastic bottles + substituting common plastic bags with other bags to diminish their use.
What to add? An intense and inspiring day. The days you need when you are missing ideas and want to find new inputs for your daily work to refresh it and reinvigorate.
The Spirit of the Share Fair 2011
Today the Second AgriKnowledge Share Fair starts.
Before anything else, we, the Steering Committee, think the Spirit of the participation to this event to be crucial.
I like very much Willem’s description of the spirit of the Share Fair 2011.
The first and main aspiration is to “have a lot of fun”: we need to chill out, talk to other people, get out of our daily routine and breath fresh air to bring innovation and new idea in what we are doing
This is the spirit we want and need to transmit to all the participants and to our institutions, in general. If people will come out of the the week with this spirit permeating their job, then our work can be considered successful.
Let us know this spirit is able to conquer your soul and your job.
Explaining ComDev using video interviews
Communication for Development has a big problem nowadays: people do not clearly understand what it is.
During the preparation and the development of the ComDev Expert Consultation we produced short videos (almost 30) to explain basic concepts of ComDev. The entire list is available on the FAO ComDev channel on youtube.
Mario, Riccardo, Oumy and many others provide interesting explanations of what ComDev is and how it deals with rural development and agriculture.
The experiment was also important to provide a clear example of how, using limited means and without a specific experience, it is possible to create a sort of mini-training course exploiting the power of social media.
Share Fair 2011
September 2011 is a very long and intense month.
After the two events at FAO (the CSDI Stocktaking exercise and the ComDev Expert consultation), it is now time for an important event taking place at IFAD: the Share Fair 2011.
I will have plenty of occasions to meet with people:
- the Training on Photosharing (11:00 – 12:30, room C400),
- the session called “Radio Lake Victoria assist Kenyan farmers with nitty-gritty of food security” (12:00-13:00, room B200),
- the session named “FARM 98.0 FM: Your vocal gateway to agricultural information” (16:00-17:00, room C300),
- the session on “5 years sharing coffee and knowledge: the Bluebar experience” (14.00 – 15.30 Tent: Chill-out Corner),
- the Chill-out with Mark Davies (15:30-16:30 Tent – Chill-out Corner), and
- the Social Reporting Team
The final Agenda of the Fair is available here.
This is not going to be alone, as at the ned of the week the km4dev annual meeting will also take place, in the same venue with even more people and things to learn.
Social Reporting during the FAO Conference
After the very positive event in Dakar for the FSCA-PISA Workshop on ComDev, it is now time for a new experiment of Social Reporting.
This time it’s happening during the 37th FAO Conference which is taking place this week at FAO in Rome.
It is the first official experiment of this kind for FAO and I think it is going to be a very interesting experience for the organization. It is important to offer the house a perception of what social reporting could be during such an event.
We chose a very light approach with few people in the Team (mainly @faonews, @permreps_unrome and myself @neoluk) and a list of selected events during the week to follow and tweet about.
7 billion of us
Sometime this year we will become 7 billion people living on Planet Earth.
Many of us have several characters in common: watch the video to discover which ones and if you are among them.
My greatest satisfaction!
What you see in this image is one of my greatest satisfaction ever!
My mother, on the right side, is using Google Images, to identify actors on historical movie pictures. This is necessary in her job to archive thousands of photos of the ASC – Archivio Storico del Cinema, my father’s historical archive of movie pictures.
She discovered the Web recently but now she is a great fan!
